, 1887-07-01
ToWN TALK
Cosby Little Paragraphs Picked VI
Throughout the City.

COu5unCu III SuSfSuuo udllSs
The enjoyable semi-occasional entertain
ment of the NJ. E. Lyceum was given last
night.
Secretary Shannon will ia. day transmit
to the president the semi apnual report of
executive correspondence, etc.
Several cows are in the city pound.
Over forty trespassing animals were cap
tured by the mounted police last month.
The washout on the Cheyenne & North
ern was quite a serious affair. 1t will
take several days to thoroughly repair the
damage.
The police nightly shut off the water in
the yards of a large number of citizens
who insist upon using more than their
share of the fluid.
Another batch of California excursion
lists from Kansas City passed through last
night. They occupied two coaches and
four sleeping cars.
A tramp who had his feet slightly
crushed while trying to mount a train in
the yards yesterday, is receiving treatment
at the county hospital
The VB cattle, property OF Gardner
Bros, Bear creek, will be transferred to
the Union cattle company to-day. The
herd numbers several Thousand head
A large number of sheep shearers have
arrived in the city. They are for the
most part experts from California and will
be employed in this vicinity the remainder
of the season.
The ladies of the Presbyterian church
will give another of their famous enter
tainments at Keefe's hall this evening. A
feature of the programme is the Crazy
March"
Judge Lee yesterday fined two soldiers
$40 dollars each for disturbing the peace
They were participants in the free fight
which occurred on Sixteenth street a few
evenings since.
The only transfer filed in the county
clerk Office yesterday was a warranty deed
from Frank c. Lyons and wife to j. W.
Collins for lot 4 in block 295. The price
paid was $1,000.
Several of the brakemen who partici-
pated in the strike here last year, have
driftei back this way. They have been
travelling in the South and West, and are
now bound for New York City.
A Cheyenne man has conferred a boon
upon long suffering humanity by patent
ing a hoe buttoner that can be carried on
a key ring without a~tearing out a pocket
every time it is produced for use.
A Philadelphia paper contains an able
loaded protest against feeding horses on
Streets And quite right. Streets, by
all the accepted municipal %canons, are food
for transit monopolies, not horses.
1t begins to look as though the glorious
Fourth wouldn't be very vigorously cele-
brated in Cheyenne this year. A large
delegation of C~heyenneites are making
preparations to spend the day in Denver.
Rawlins is weeping because the base
ball nine of that village was defeated by
the Carbon team to the tune of 81 to l6
That's nothing! You ought to see the
Cheyenne Red Stockings play the Seven
teenth Infantry club.
Il am going to buy a light coat to
match these pantaloons,' he remarked to
his wife the other day. ''and a light pair
of gloves to match the coat, and a light
soft hat to match" Your head, | sup
pose, " interrupted the spouse, gently, and
the household knew no harmony that day.
Frank johnson 10 the name given
by a tramp whom Officer Deit-
rick yanked from a box car yesterday.
The tourist was armed with a six shooter,
a dirk knife and a slung shot. He offered
the policeman his artillery and a silver
watch for his freedom, but was locked up,
it being naturally supposed that a man so
anxious to escape had committed a ser
ious offense before his arrival here.
The city board of equalization adjourned
SINE die at a late hour last night. Very
few objections were made to the value
placed upon property by the board, and
when a kicker did AZ pear he was pacifed
by the honied tones and winning ways of
the councilmen, and left without shedding
any blood or raising much of a row. As
stated before the total valuation is in the
neighborhood of "a, OOO, 900.
W. W. Russell, the Laramie man who
was last fall convicted of attempting, with
the collision Of A. L. Haines, Tod Bran.
ner and a man named Felden, to defraud
a Dakota stockman of a herd of horses,
was %pardoned from Joliet penitentiary by
Gov. Moonlight yesterday, Russell was
sentenced to three years imprisonment,
but was released by the executive on the
ground that through teshnicalities of the
law others equally guilty of the crime had
escaped and that Russell was drunk at the
time of engaging in the scheme. Haiues,
the other mar convicted, committed sui
eide in the Albany county jail.